Just make sense of what’s the most important characteristic and tell the story from there.”Ĭonnect with Misha on Behance or Instagram. If I were to give advice to someone who’s interested in learning more about minimalistic art, I’d say: it is all in the details. Ultimately, I’d say that my minimalist philosophy is ‘infantile perfectionism.’ That’s why I genuinely love to experiment with tools such as Photoshop, AfterEffects, and Cinema4d. Yet, I do not approach minimalism as a strict, unwavering movement – instead, minimalism is much more personal to me.

“I see the art of minimalism as being a concept that is natural and sharp. What resulted were many different perspectives – proving that minimalism is a style with an impressive amount of creative depth.

To get a behind-the-scenes look at the world of minimalism, we reached out to several artists and design firms, asking them to give us their take on this art form. In order for an artist to get such an idea or concept across, they must put faith in their audience, working with them to bring their vision to life. The most important component of minimalist art is arguably the viewer’s reaction to such art because, in the end, an artist’s audience must be able to take what they’re given, interpret it, and figure out what the overall message is. Through the use of symbolism, precise forms, reduced elements, and thoughtfully-chosen colors, many artists and studios tirelessly work to take an elaborate concept and present it in a straightforward, yet novel, manner. Here are a few examples of mangas that have this art style:Īnd here are some images for this classic manga art style.Minimalism is an art form that thrives on simplicity – yet it’s anything but simple when it comes to the creative process. Some styles would even exaggerate some parts of the body, for example, really long legs, compared to the rest to the body! In general, this art style also tends to focus on more feminine bodies, with very angular chins and thin bodies. Old Japanese manga characters tend to have very human-like proportions when it comes to their bodies, with the difference of having quite big and cute eyes most of the time. I feel like I could divide this even into more parts, but I don’t want to fill this article with just Japanese cartoon art styles! Classic Manga In fact, I decided to divide this into 3 different specific art styles since they are quite different from each other. Japanese cartoon art styles tend to be quite different from their western counterparts. Ugly Americans Japanese Cartoon Art Styles Here are some more images of this specific cartoon drawing art style! Some examples of this cartoon drawing style are: Since the arms and legs, the entire motion in fact, of the character would move a lot as if there were no bones in their bodies. In fact, some people call this style of drawing (and then animating) noodle drawings.

This style is also characterized by usually having short bodies and long limbs. These art styles are in black and white and with very high contrast body parts most of the time. Most of the times people reference this type of cartoon drawing as “Fleischer Cartoons” since the art style was heavily used by Fleischer Studios.

Let’s start with the very old cartoon drawing styles from many years ago. 6.10 Hayao Miyazaki Art Style (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke…).6.8 Dragon Ball / Chrono Trigger (Akira Toriyama).

Minimalist drawing